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WINFIELD SCOTT. 

A Great Soldier with a Great Heart. 

Address by Gen. H. B. Carrington, U. S. A., on the evening of his 86th birthday, 

before the Massachusetts Commandery of the Loyal Legion, at its 

Spring Meeting in Boston, March 2, 1910. 

(Supplemented by OFFiciAii Documents.) 



To the Mass. Commandery of the Loyal 

Legion, Greeting! 
Commander and Companions ! 

I respectfully ask permission on this my 
86th birthday, on release from an attack of 
grippe, as I may not have a better opportun- 
ity, to speak briefly of a great soldier with 

; a great heart. Gen. Winfield Scott, com- 
mander-in-chief of the armies of the United 

i States, who sprang so promptly to the 
rescue of the beleaguered garrison of Fort 
Sumter in 1861, when, if he had been 
loyally supported by the Federal authorities, 
the Stars and Stripes would never have 
left masthead so long as the sun shed its 

' light, and years of dreadful war for the 
preservation of the Union and Constitution 
of the fathers might have been spared our 
country. All is right now. The Union 
has been restored, but at what a cost! 

I make this request because I owe Gen 
Scott a boundless measure of personal 
gratitude, and do it with more freedom 
because of our present membership, no 
other commission of general or field 
oflficer during the Civil war dates back of 
mj own. May 14, 1861, and Gen. Scott in 
person, without my own previous knowl- 
edge, was active in its issue. It is historic 
in fact, and I desire to have it on record 
with those of other companions of this 
:ommandery. 
I was on very close relations to Gen. 



Scott during a painful tragic incident 
which he declared to have been the most 
painful of his life. Its sequel will be 
noted later. 

As the Whig candidate in 1852 for the 
presidency of the United States, unmindful 
of his lack of experience in political or 
social science and aptitude for oratorical 
discussions of political issues, he ventured 
upon a formal political campaign, via 
Ohio, with New Orleans and the South as 
his objective of influence. Great applause 
and a rousing reception awaited him at 
Cleveland, Ohio. 

At Cleveland he found awaiting his 
arrival the following committee from 
Columbus. All military and civil organiza- 
tions or orders at the capital had been 
organized for a grand procession and 
welcome on his arrival. The committee 
consisted of Aaron F. Perry, Esq., ray own 
former law partner, afterwards congress- 
man from Cincinnati, and William 
Dennison, then my law partner, who after- 
wards became governor at the outbreak of 
the war. 

A telegram reached me from Cleveland 
that I must act as the personal escort of 
Gen. Scott upon his arrival at Columbus. 
A salute of 21 guns was to be flred upon 
his leaving the railroad station, and a gun 
squad was awaiting his arrival. A coach 
and four, duly decorated, awaited his 



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pleasure. All roofs and windows of the 
main street, High street, and all sidewalks, 
were crowded with thousands of eager and 
enthusiastic observers. A handkerchief 
signal was to follow the second shot of the 
salute for the procession to take up its 
march. 

Upon reaching the carriage, I was 
advised that my seat would be at Gen. 
Scott's left, and upon my comment, "1 do 
not see why this be so, unless to make 
the contrast more decided by the side of 
his magnificent physical carriage," he re- 
plied at once, with a smile : "Size does not 
make the man, sir. I am in the hands of 
your committee the same as yourself, and 
that is their concern." 

The first shot was fired, and at the 
second I raised my hand to give the moving 
signal when an artillery man rushed from 
the station to tell rae that by a premature 
discharge of the piece, two and perhaps 
three had been killed. Dr. Hamilton, a 
skillful surgeon, was in the doorway. To 
him, I entrusted the charge of the whole 
matter, with caution "to make no public 
demonstration of his medical service," 
stepped back, entered the carriage, gave 
the signal, and with the music of many 
bands and the shouts of excited witnesses 
the procession hastened on its ronte. 

On reaching the Neil house, opposite the 
Capitol, the General was introduced and 
was warmly welcomed, and the hotel w^as 
soon filled with delegations to do him 
honor. 

The most impressive body thus pre- 
sented, was that of Germans under the 
escort of the venerable Judge Christian 
Heyl, who with marked excitement pre- 
sented a copy of the Westcote, a local 
Democratic paper, and demanded whether 
its charges "that when in Mexico he both 
flogged and hung German soldiers, for 
absence without leave, desertion, and let 
Irish and other soldiers go clear," were 
true. 



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Scott, like an enraged lion, rose to his 
full stature of more than six feet, four 
inches, and as he swung wide his arras and 
breasted the waiting Germans, words shot 
forth as from a catapult. He was like a 
wild man, snd people shrank back from his 
immediate presence. For a moment it 
seemed that he must strike some living 
adversary. 

"What's that! What's that you say? I 
never heard it before! It's a devilish in- 
vention! An infamous lie! A damned 
falsehood ! For a man who for fifty years 
had neither risen from sleep nor walked 
abroad, or even drank a cup of cold water 
in the field, but his mind w^as on his 
country, her honor and her welfare! This 
is wicked, atrocious, horrible! You see 
me excited ! I have the right to be ex- 
cited !" With sweeping arms and gestures 
as wild, he added : "I carried on war as a 
Christian, and not as a fiend ?" 

"Judge Heyl caught the truth, withdrew 
his delegation, and as they left the Neil 
parlor, the corridors rang with this, their 
response : 

"Hurrah for General Scott, 
The hero brave and true. 
We'll place him there, 

In the presidential chair, 
For he's our nominee." 

The speech was so incohorent and tem- 
pestuous at its opening, that Mr. Perry, edi- 
tor of the Columbus, Ohio, State Journal, re- 
vised our joint notes, omitting expletives, 
so that the truly masterly vindication by 
General Scott, of his Mexican service, ap- 
peared in the November number of the 
American Whig Review of New York, 
greatly to his honor. 

Mr. Perry introduced its first appearance 
at Columbus by the following editorial : 

"Never have we witnessed a scene more 
imposing than when the old chieftain, with 
a quick and indignant response, repelled 
the false and malignant charge. Lofty in 
stature, and standing at least four inches 
above the tallest of those among whom he 



stood, his form seemed gigantic, as with 
heightened color and flashing eye, and a 
[". wave of his hand that expressed a calm de- 
V fiance of all such assailants, he uttered his 
J emphatic protest against such assaults as 
[: that paragraph represented." 

^ GENERAL SCOTT'S ADDRESS. 

"New, and before unknown to me, are 
such things as have been told me. They 
surprise and pain me. They at once con- 
cern all that I value personally, and aim a 
blow at all that wherein, if I know myself, 
I have the highest pride. They attack my 
own identity ! The principles for which I 
had believed I need never search my own 
bosom in vain, are undermined, or denied 
me! I am met with charges of injustice 
and cruelty while leading an American 
array through Mexico, and while partici- 
pating alike iu its trials and its triumphs! 

Gentlemen, it was my lot to lead an 
American army upon a foreign field. I 
went, resolved to sustain, in the forefront 
of my progress the high-tide water mark 
of our own American civiMzation, in all its 
moral and civil virtue. The standard of 
our own, and not the practices of that for- 
eign country, was the standard which I 
sought for the government of men's pas- 
sions and the control of the license and ex- 
cesses of war. Alike to Americans, 
whether native or of foreign birth, and to 
Mexicans, I declared my purpose, and ex- 
hibited my principles of action. 

I promulgated the martial code. Doubt- 
less, you all have read it. I deemed it nec- 
essary. I could do nothing without it. It 
announced the spirit of our progress, 
and held amenable to punishment all who 
forgot manhood, and threatened to bring 
shame upon our flag — dishonor to our 
arms — or a reproach upon our virtue I 
Without it we had not conquered, or if we 
had conquered, the brightest trophy of our 
conquest had been wanting. It would 
have been a physical triumph, and a physi- 
cal triumph alone. Humanity would have 



disowned us. I promulgated that order. 
Read it, and read it again, gentlemen, and 
then bear me witness, that it was in my 
heart, as it was almost hourly on my lips, 
for continued months, to carry with Amer- 
can arms and under the American Flag, 
even into the enemies' country, all the ele- 
ments of social order, and that regard for 
personal right that belonged to our own 
free institutions in the United States. 

Yes, I sought to carry with me, and re- 
solved to maintain, at all hazards, among 
my own command, and also that people 
among whom we should be thrown, that 
high standard of virtue and honor which 
we boasted at home. Had I not been less 
than an American, and recreant to the 
highest interests of humanity, and the age 
we rejoice in, if I had done less? They 
say I hanged some Germans, and tied up 
and flogged others. Gentlemen, some per- 
sons were hanged in Mexico. The names 
of all of them I do not now recollect. 
Whether any were Germans or not, I know 
not. But for what— yes, for what were 
they hanged? I hanged one for murder, 
gentlemen ; I hanged one for rape upon an 
innocent young female, and for profane 
and wicked church robbery. All knew the 
law that was over them. Every man of 
them knew that he would be held as an- 
swerable for vile misdeeds against the laws 
of God and man, as if he were then upon 
American soil. 

For such crimes they sufi'ered — for such 
crimes as here, in your own Ohio — a land 
of law — would have brought down upon 
them severe penalties, and with equal jus- 
tice. Some did sufi'er death ! But their 
trial was fair, impartial, and upon the same 
principles of solid law upon which they 
would have been adjudged guilty here 
among you. Do some say I hanged fifteen 
Germans, and that others were arraigned 
and flogged without cause or trial? Gen- 
tlemen, I know nothing of it. It is false — 
it is a lie — an Invention — gentlemen — a lie. 



I see aged citizens before me. I see emi- 
nent lawyers here. And, gentlemen, you 
see me much excited. But is it not for 
cause? For one who for fifty years has 
scarcely walked, rose, slept or eaten, or 
even taken a cup of cold water, in the 
field, the town, or the camp, but his 
thoughts were of his country — her virtue 
— her renown — her honor; to be thus as 
sailed — it is monstrous — it is intolerable! 
Gentlemen, I did, with a high hand, sustain 
the law, which, with uprightness in my 
heart, I determined to sustain. I did hang 
for murder! I did hang for rape! I did 
hang for treason ! And I flogged thieves 
and pickpockets! For, gentlemen, let me 
again say, I not only carried with me, but 
I resolved with every resource I could 
command, to sustain fearlessly and effect- 
ually, in its virtue and in its choicest 
blessings, not only to my own command, 
but to the defenceless and peaceful Mexi- 
cans, that civilization, yes, that christian 
civilization, of which I^ was proud to be- 
lieve that army might appear a worthy 
representative. 

But, gentlemen, I was no respecter of 
persons. American or Mexican — native 
born or foreign born, whoever knew the 
law and obeyed it not — whoever, reckless 
of his own responsibilities and the rights 
of others, trampled under foot and set at 
naught the law that was over all, I pun- 
ished. I did hang for the crimes stated, 
and I would have hung a hundred seekers 
of innocent blood, and violaters of female 
chastity, if so many had been the offenders ! 
And for this, perverted and misshaped, I 
am made answerable to a charge against 
which my every feeling revolts, and 
which my own nature and my own life re- 
pel. No, gentlemen, it is a lie, (the charge 
as made, or that any were wrongfully pun- 
ished) a false and groundless lie. I am 
not unthankful to my good friend who has 
told me of these things. It was right. 

But, gentlemen, I stand here before you. 



and declare as I have already declared, and 
again declare, the principles that governed 
my command in Mexico are those of my 
life. To that life in my country's service 
I need not appeal in vain for an answer 
now. With equal freedom and confidence, 
do I throw myself upon the honest verdict 
of every man, who, with me, served his 
country in the fields of Mexico." 

Enthusiasm pervaded the evening gath- 
erings, and the banquet passed along until 
quite a late hour in its formal course. 

Dr. Hamilton had advised me that the 
slain and wounded had been cared for, and 
both Mr. Dennison and Mr. Perry agreed 
with myself that the accident so far as 
possible should not enter into a record of 
the day's celebration. 

Suddenly, late at the banquet, whispers 
as to an accident came near Gen. Scott's 
chair. By his side was Surgeon Gen. 
Gibson, his staff companion on his journey. 
Scott straightened himself up, "Did you 
hear that? What is it? About some 
accident today?" All at once he caught 
what I supposed he had never noticed, and 
said : "Did the stopping that salute mean 
anything?" 

Secrecy was no longer possible. He 
broke down absolutely, like a weeping 
child- Even when accompanied to his 
room, it seemed as if he never would regain 
composure. He ordered his morning train 
from Cincinnati, en route to New Orleans, 
to be countermanded. He cried out : "It is 
one thing to lose an arm in battle, but, my 
God, no office in this world is worth a 
limb, much less a life! Why did you not 
tell me that the farce of a funeral pro- 
cession, converted into a pretended jubilee 
of joy, was my fate today? It will kill 
me." Before midnight he became more 
composed and acceded to the suggestion 
that we go together at daybreak to the 
homes of the afliicted households. 

At six o'clock the next morning, Robert 
Neil, Sr., accompanied us to the modest 



homes of the afflicted families in the fifth 
ward, the German ward of Columbus. Gen. 
Scott's great height compelled hira to stoop 
on entrance, and with difficulty a chair was 
placed for his use. His first reception was 
cold and repulsive. The extent of the 
calamity was hardly realized in these homes. 
The gun squad of men I had personally 
known. The great soldier wept like a 
child. His anguish was so intense as not 
to be ignored. One little boy, standing 
between his knees, said: "Soldier, don't 
cry ; you didn't do it." With each house- 
hold he left a $20 gold piece, promised 
never to forget them," and he kept his 
promise. 

From that date, Gen. Scott kept me 
supplied with military books, and on part- 
ing the next day, left me this memorandum, 
"Many a battle has been lost or won 
by silence, such as yours of yesterday, 
proving the wisdom of silence, when actual 
knowledge, would have been ruin. You 
ought to be in the army! You may be 
wanted. I'll never forget you." And he 
never did. 

When at the opening of the Civil war a 
proposition was pending to add to the 
obliterated regular army, nine additional 
regiments, of Infantry, each of three 
battalions, of eight companies each, with 
an aggregate complement of 2,443 officers 
and men, he requested President Lincoln to 
give one of the Colonel's commissions to 
the Adjutant General of Ohio. 

This request of Gen. Scott's was for- 
warded to myself, as approved by Presi 
dent Lincoln's cabinet, with the following 
official advice of Secretary S. P. Chase, 
"Why not accept this colonelcy, with the 
prospect of brigadiership?" 

1 declined the ofier, because, already it 
has been designed to assign to me a South 
American or a southern European diplo- 
matic position, on account of threatening 
lung troubles, that In 1855, almost cost my 
life. 



To this declination came the rejoinder, 
"there are other services as valuable as 
those in the field. If you accept, your 
duties, as important, may not risk your 
health in immediate field service." 

Not until June 24, 1861, did I accept the 
colonelcy of the 18th U. S. Infantry. 

What followed? There was no regular 
infantry ! All other new colonels were 
needed to command volunteer brigades, 
divisions or corps. 

A western army "Camp of Enlistment 
and Instruction" was established in Ohio, 
called Camp Thomas, under the command 
of the colonel of the new 18th U. S. In- 
fantry. Canby of the 19th, a native of 
Indiana, was in New Mexico. Indianapolis 
was made headquarters for recruits for 
that regiment. All regiments above the 
14th, were to be raised and disciplined at 
the west, of which Camp Thomas was 
made the general headquarters. 

To the 16th was assigned as a major, 
Sydney Coolidge of Boston, Mass. To the 
18th, as a major, was assigned Adjt. Gen. 
Frederick Townsend of New York, who 
resigned the colonelcy of his N. Y. regi- 
ment after the battle of Big Bethel, to 
accept this majority. 

Col. W. T. Sherman of the 13th In- 
fantry, as a general officer, was barely 
holding his own at Mudraugh's Hill, Ken- 
tucky. He was called 'Crazy' in his 
estimate of forces intended for the war. 

Senator Thomas Ewing of Ohio, Sher- 
man's father-in-law, came in person to 
Camp Thomas, at the general's request, 
that I support him at once. The war 
department declined. Gen. Mitchell at 
Cincinnati directly ordered me to join him 
with the 18th Infantry to "seize and occupy 
Cumberland Gap." The war department 
declined. But as early as May 7, general 
order No. 17, office of adjt. general of 
Ohio, (quoted, in foot note under heading 
'Ohio,' vol. 1, 1861, Appleton's Encyclo- 
pedia), divided Ohio into districts of 



organization, at once, of a military re- 
serve, of 1,000 companies (100 regiments) 
for probable service in the field daring 
the year. Secretary Cameron had declined 
the offer of 50, instead of 13, the assigned 
quota, but approved the equipment of other 
regiments, then in camp, as they might be 
wanted. 

That offer, bearing date April 23, 1861, 
reads as follows: (See War Records Page 
104, vol 1, series 111). 

Headquarters Ohio Militia and Volunteer 
Militia, Adjutant-General's Office, 

Columbus, April 23, 1861. 
Hon. S. Cameron, 

Secretary of War : 

We have nothing from you since dispatch 
not to forward, etc. We are urgent that a 
requisition for the Kentucky quota reach 
us soon. We have the Thirteenth and 
Fourteenth Regiments raised and can make 
the force 50,000 men. I speak upon due 
reflection and upon the figures. I shall 
organize six or eight regiments additional 
to our quota and pot them under drill at 
any event, and the feeling is so intense 
that I do not limit the number. We will 
learn much by — ; Edward Ball (see 104, as 
above) left this a. m. We have corn for 
the year, whether we plant much or not 
and could never so well meet the issues of 
war. When the order is "Advance," Ohio 
will go to the Gulf if need be. Yours, 
etc. , 

Henry B. Carrington, 

Adjutant-General. 

The following reply of Secretary Cam- 
eron appears on page 124, War Records, 
same volume and series : 

Secretary Cameron to Col. Carrington, 
Columbus O., April 27, 1861 : 

«'War Dept., Washington, April 27, 1861. 
Col. H. B. Carrington, Columbus, O. 

Dear Sir : — I have yours of the 23d inst., 
and would tender you, as I have already 
done to His Excellency, the Governor of 
Ohio, the thanks of this department, for 



the promptness and energy with which 
you have met the call of the government. I 
regret that, according to the plan adopted 
and under which this department is act- 
ing, we can only accept for the quota first 
called for from Ohio. You will do well 
however, in organizing and drilling other 
regiments, so as to be prepared to meet 
any emergency that may arise. 
Very truly yours, 
(Signed) Simon Cameron, Sec. of War." 

This address as "Col." at that early date 
was left for later solution. 

Of all these facts, Gen. Scott, as well as 
the president and his cabinet, had full 
knowledge. In fact, the first two regi- 
ments of the thirteen assigned to Ohio left 
for Washington, within sixty hours after 
receipt of President Lincoln's first call ; 
and these regiments were made up by 
t'^legrams sent at midnight, or by personal 
calls when nearby, of the very best com- 
panies of the organized and well drilled 
state militia. 

As a fact, nine of these regiments had 
to be sent into West Virginia, and their 
battery had appeared in the Battle of 
Phillipi before mustering officers could be 
secured to muster into service the Ohio 
Volunteer proper, then in Camp Dennison, 
awaiting muster. (See Rebellion Records, 
Series ITI, Vol I, page 124, dated April 27, 
1861.)* 

In this connection other data are rele- 
vant, in addition to notes at the end of this 
address. 

Catherinus P. Buckingham, of Mt. Ver- 
non, Ohio, and a graduate of West Point, 
had been appointed Assist Adjt. -General of 
Ohio, but by special arrangement of the 
War Department, Col. Carrington was to 
retain office until the first 26 regiments 
were organized. 

His lengthy official report to Secretary 
Cameron, dated June 21st, 1861, of all 
forces organized under his personal super- 
vision, appears on pages 288 and 289, 



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Official War Records, Series III, Vol- 
ume I. 

Ou pa^e 357, same volume, appears let- 
ter from Acljt.-Gen. L. Thomas, U. S. A., 
bearing date July 27, 1861, fully setting 
forth the services of the nine regiments of 
Ohio state troops and Col. Barnett's artil- 
lery of six guns, which had served in West 
Virginia before the Ohio Volunteers could 
be placed in the field. 

On pages 387 and 393, dated August 3 
and August 8 (same volume) appear com- 
munications as to the delay of the Govern- 
ment in supplying mustering officers. 

During these months, at Camp Thomas, 
itself, every condition incident to a sudden 
call to the field was maintained, even as 
to city absences, or long absence from 
camp. 

By request of Gov. Todd, an incipient 
outbreak from Camp Chase, by prisoners 
of war, was reduced to order, and a de- 
tachment of the 18th, sent to that camp, 
was soon withdrawn. An official report 
was made of the incident to the governor, 
immediately. 

The first battalion of the 16th, Maj. 
Sydney Coolidge, of Boston, afterwards 
killed at Chickamauga, was taken by Col. 
Carrington, iu November, to Louisville 
and turned over to the division of Gen. 
Mitchel. Two battalions of the 18th, at 
the same time, were delivered by Col. 
Carrington to Gen. Thomas at Lebanon, 
Ky., and to these were added the 9th and 
35th Ohio, and the 2d Minn., as a Brigade, 
under his command. Emergencies re- 
quired that he first complete his recruiting 
service at the west, and the next senior 
colonel took his brigade into the Battle of 
Mill Springs, Ky. 

To return to the subject of this sketch. 

Upon learning of the progress made in 
the organization of the 18th U.S. Infantry, 
Gen. Scott invited its colonel to his head- 
quarters at Washington. 



On the day that Munson Heights was 
occupied by Confederate troops and when 
Massachusetts avenue was crowded by 
double trains of bread wagons, passing to 
the Fi^deral Capital, the national bakery 
for the time being, Gen. Scott, over his 
personal signature issued a special order, 
in my favor, directing all post commanders 
and other officers then preparing for de- 
fence of the capital, to give the bearer 
full respect in his inspections of f ortifics- 
tions and disciplinary movements of the 
army. Its date was Sept. 25, 1861. All 
forts east of the Acqueduct were visited, 
as well as the "Sheleton Drills" of regi- 
ment, brigade, and division movements in 
"Evolutions of the Line." 

Enlargement of the recruiting service 
on Bragg's invasion of Kentucky, in 1862, 
involved the personal organization, equip- 
ment, and paying bounty of all Indiana 
volunteers; and, upon ray immediate pro- 
motion as Brig. Gen. of Volunteers, the 
protection of the Ohio river border for 
fully three years, when I rejoined Gen. 
Thomas, until he left Kentucky for the 
Pacific coast; and then, my own regiment, 
recruited to its maximum strength, in 
Sept. 1865, was ordered to the defence of 
the Indian frontier. Daring its existence, 
as a three battalion regiment, it included 
an aggregate of 4,773 men. Having the 
appointment of all second lieutenants, I 
enlisted educated young men with scrupu- 
lous care. Several attained the rank of 
brigadier general. I mention three. The 
first recruit of the 18th Infantry was Henry 
B. Freeman, now brigadier general re- 
tired. Another, Gilbert S. Carpenter, a 
student of Western Reserve College, be- 
came colonel of his regiment during the 
Spanish American War, and at his death, 
was on the army list as a brigadier general 
retired. A third, John Hitchoock, son of 
the president of the Western Reserve 
College, then but a young lieutenant, gave 



his life for the flag, in the battle of Stone 
Kiver. 

In the aggregate of Special Recruiting 
Service, more than 120,000 men were duly 
organized and placed in the field for 
immediate active duty. 

When I left Gen. Scott in 1861, to return 
to Camp Thomas, his parting words, after- 
wards more than once recalled to my 
memory by his favorite A..D.C., then A.A.G. 
who became later adjutant general of the 
army, Col. E. D. Townsend, (who counter- 
signed Gen. Scott's special order) were 
simply these : 

"You are my own colonel, and I knew 
you would do it." 

He was a "great soldier with a great 
heart,'* and his manuscript duty-detail, 
above noticed, has to myself and family, a 
value as if it were a gold medal rather 
than as a great soldier's simple expression 
of his implicit confidence and sincere 
respect. 

(Signed) Henry B. Carrington, 
Brig. Gen. U.S.A. Retired, 
Col. 18th U. S. Inf. May 14, 1861. 

*NoTE— This "Light Battery" of the 
State Militia, then know as "Barnett's," 
had been long organized by Capt. David L. 
Wood, quartermaster general of Ohio from 
1857 to 1861. During a trip to Niagara, 
fully mounted, it was there reviewed by 
Gen. Scott, who pronounced its practice to 
"closely vie with that of Riugold's of the 
regular army." Wood was appointed a 
captain of the 18th Infantry, instead of 
artillery, which, owing to his personal 
weight and age, made foot service im- 



practicable for him to take up li fantry 
movements. 

The battery went Into service uncer the 
following order : 

Columbus, O., April 20, 1861. 
Col. James Barnett, Cleveland, O. 

Report your six pieces, caissons, and full 
battery, including the Geneva company, 
at Columbus, forthwith, Monday, if 
possible. You can hire horses for the 
guns here, or at your point of service. 
Bring harness and everything else. Twenty 
men to each gun. You retain Colonel's 
rank. By order, 

H. B. Carrington, Adjutant General. 

A foundry was opened on Sunday, and 
round shot were cast. Ladies left church 
to make powder bags. Powder was brought 
from Xenia. When Barnett 's battery 
entered the Columbus Railroad Station, 
Pres. Israel Andrews of Marietta College 
and Rufus Putnam, one of its trustees, 
were at the depot, about to call upon 
Gov. Dennison and beg for artillery. With- 
out leaving the depot they went home 
with the battery and it was planted on the 
heights back of Parkersburg at midnight, 
just in time to repel the advancing Con- 
federate forces, which were pursued and 
routed at Phillipi. 

It is needless to add that James Barnett 
as a major general of Volunteers, still 
shares the respect of the American people 
hardly less than any general ofiicer who 
bore part in military service during the 
years from 1861-1865. 

H. B. C. 



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